How To Be An Agnostic

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beyond reason. Here, I have argued it is to the radical unknow-
ability of God that needs to be recalled, to the extent repre-
sented by a passionate agnosticism. Rather than debunking
reason, this is an approach that focuses on reason’s limits.


P/Q – is about Probabilities


Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, has popularised the idea
that you can weigh up the probability of God’s existence. God


Illus. 8.2: Sigmund Freud’s ‘royal road’ to the unknown unconscious borrows
from the Christian tradition of radical uncertainty.

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